blastomussa question

[durtled]

I'm sure someone out there knows something about blastomussas. if so any info would be greatly appreciated.

we have had this blasto for about a year looks great nice and full polyps. a year and it doesn't seem to have grown much at all. tank set up is 55 gal DT 20 gal sump with cheato, 2 250w halides, 4 65w CF atinics, current 1/10hp chiller. water quality is excellent 15 gal water change every week with RO/DI dose strontium, calcium, and iodide.

so my question is how can i get my blasto to grow better?

I've tried placing lower in the tank but didn't seem to make a difference + hated having to get sand off it from the sleeper gobys. only thing that we determined is that it needs shade so we give it some.

thx for looking.

 

[Lateralus]

Bump! tagging along...

 

[Subw00er]

Maybe it would grow better if it werent in the shade? Mine seem to like being out in the open at the bottom. I use mid to low strength LEDs

LPS are not the fastest growers for me either.. I have a bunch of acans, blasto, although my duncans seem to do well and make babies, still dont have a lot of branch growth. etc.. just slow growing. Takes a while to build that calciferous base!

Are you feeding it? Give it some meat (pellets mysis) a coupe times a week.

 

[Coralman9]

What are your cal , Alk and mag levels ?????

 

[Coralman9]

Also do you spot feed it ???

 

[birdman1979]

Is it a merletti or wellsi? I keep both and definately get slower growth from my merletti. Here's a one month growth progression. The center two polyps are most noticable. They are kept in a 75 gallon with 108W of T5, low flow and fed pellets and frozen brine. Merletti does best for me when I have it shaded under the large FS colony.

April:

May:

May Merletti:

 

[damac20]

Blastos are my favorite coral, I have about 10 different ones. Some of mine grow quickly ( a polyp or 2 a month) and some not at all. I used to feed spot feed mine but I found my fish picking at them because it was easy food so I stopped. I do try to feed my fish their pellets over the colonies though so they get some food. And that seems to work.